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High tide of protests worldwide

What you need to know is that this economic campaign will fail as thoroughly as the military campaign.

The simultaneous economic sanctions on Iran and Canada will make everything you buy cost more—if we’re lucky. Administration actions in the past couple of years have been almost deliberately designed to raise prices.

I came back from China impressed, troubled, and more convinced than before that the most important political battles of the coming decades will be fought not over ideology, but over infrastructure.

Left confers in South Africa without ANC

The modern idea of the freedom of the seas is collapsing in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Iran War exposes how a new global catastrophe may unfold. The Iran war contains echoes of not only the Suez Moment, but of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Besides signaling to the world that US hegemony is on a downhill slide

Toward a unified project of change

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Pakistan may have appeared as an unexpected mediator in the negotiations to end the Iran war. But the country, taken over by a military regime after the ouster of populist PM Imran Khan, has recently been making a major play on the world stage.